Word: franticness
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Next evening Truman was back at the barricades in another sector: he turned his attention to the "hypocritical" and "frantic" critics of corruption and disloyalty in government. In a nationally broadcast speech to the Civil Service League, he accused his critics of "a ruthless, cynical attempt to put over a gigantic hoax and fraud on the American people" to distract attention from the real issues of the day. Said Truman: "Political gangsters are attempting to pervert the [loyalty] program into an instrument of intimidation and blackmail, to coerce or destroy any who dare to oppose them . . . They have not hesitated...
Several years ago one of the monkeys escaped through a ventillation duct, roamed around the building for a few days, finally jumped out a window and was eventually treed by a frantic search party...
Despite industry's frantic efforts, the demand for engineers will continue to outstrip the supply-unless a sudden, unlikely end to world tension should bring a cutback of war production. The class of '52 is graduating into a technicians' world and an engineers' market...
...expect in their fall classes, and to give the Registrar's Office an inkling of how large a room each course needs. But so far it has been at best a faculty indicator. Comes the first meetings of fall courses and the Registrar is beseiged by lecturers, each frantic because his class is overflowing its assigned lecture halls. Actually, the enrollment of a year before is a more accurate guide to planning than the hasty and speculative decisions that appear on the typical study card...
...nearly five hours the committee was deadlocked. By that time frantic calls were coming in from the theater at which the convention was being held. A performance of Darkness at Noon was scheduled for that night, and the convention had to clear out. Faced with that deadline, the committee agreed: six delegates for Ike, one (Spangler) for Taft and three uncommitted. One uncommitted choice, Mrs. Gertrude Wilharm, turned...